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AACS STREAMING VIDEO SERIES (Requires Windows Media Player on Your Computer)
      Orientation Video 1: AACS History, Philosophy, Employment (2004) - Length: 10:23
      Orientation Video 2: Agency Programs and Services (2005) - Length: 13:00
      Orientation Video 3: AACS Personnel and Employment Orientation (2006) - Length: 13:21

Fiscal References AACS & Societal Issues Media References
Personnel Related Plans / Publications AACS History
Programs / Service-related Studies and Reviews Training Opps

Operational Memos Job Descriptions Performance Appraisal
  Organizational Charts  

Staff Orientation References
Each of these documents are SEARCHABLE by word or phrase
Agency / programmatic PowerPoint overviews:
Head Start / Early Head Start's "I-99+" presentation - January 2000
AACS, Inc. Affirmative Action Plan, 2006 - Microsoft Word document
FISCAL

Financial Manual, Third Edition
Payroll Schedule, 2005
Payroll Due Dates
Pay Schedules, AACS
  • Salary Chart
  • Wage Chart
    Time Sheet Submissions
    Property Transfer Reqmt.
    Travel Regulations
    Travel Requests
    Out-of-area Travel
    Travel Allowance Rates
    Admin Reqmts. (A-110)
    Cost Principles (A-122)
    Grants Admin (45 CFR 74)
    Reporting/Acctg. Schedule
    Monthly Closeouts
    (By Month, By Program Account)
    Other References / Manuals

  • PERSONNEL

    Employee Handbook
  • Acrobat Version(PDF)
  • HTML Version
    Work Schedule
    Time and Attendance
    Tardiness/Absenteeism
    Overtime Policy
    "Authorized Official"
    Drug Free Workplace
    Ethics Policy
    Weapons Prohibition
    Staff Limitations
    Dress and Grooming
    "Mastering Change" Refs.
    Time Management
    Health Insurance Enrollment
    (Federal "HIPPA" requirements)
    Visualizing Success
    Emotional Control
    "Organizational Ecology"
    Workplace "Toxins"
  • Characteristics of healthy orgs
  • Workplace "toxins"
  • Guiding principles for healthy orgs
  • "Collaborative model of the Mid-west"
  • New metaphors for the workplace
  • Interesting and useful references
    "Your Retirement Benefits" (PowerPoint File)
    "Your Retirement Benefits" (Html Version)
    "Retirement Options" (Word Document)
    Fair Labor Standards PowerPoint Presentation
    Html Version
    Family Medical Leave PowerPoint Presentation
    Html Version
    Performance Appraisal and Documentation PowerPoint Presentation
    Html Version
  • SERVICE

    Confidentiality Policy
    Performance Standards(PDF)
    for Head Start
    Quality Initiative, HS
    Regional AdministratorSteven
    Golightly's Challenges
  • "Management in the New Millennium"
  • KHSA Address
  • R4-HSA Address
    Outcome Measures, CSBG
  • ROMA Goals
  • ROMA Review
    Speak Up for Low Income
    Brain Development, Child
    Programs & Services Brochure, '97"
    CCAP Insert
    AACS "Mini-sketch"
    Poverty Income Guidelines,
    2006 (DHHS)
    Services Summary, AACS
  • 2003-2004
    Kentucky CAAs' 2-Parent Family Services
    Statewide totals only
    A Vision of Communities
    Where Learning Can Take Place
    "Together We Can"Chart
  • SOCIETAL

    KACA Page | Kentucky CAAs
    KHSA Page | Head Start Pgms.
    Federal-State Trends
    "Technotrends"
    "Megatrends"
    John Naisbit (1984)
    Free to Grow Lessons
    "Mastering Change" Initiative
    Peter Senge: 5th Discipline(PDF)
    Leadership Without Easy...(PDF)
    R. Heifetz Book Review
    Leadership Without Easy...
    R. HeifetzSummary Review
    for Leadership Kentucky
    Playing The Future(PDF)
    Ending Child Poverty
    2000 CDF Conference
    Presentation
    (Microsoft Word document)
    "Growing Up In America.
    2000 CDF Conference
    Presentation
    (Microsoft Word document)
    Beating the Odds
    2000 CDF Conference
    Presentation
    (Microsoft Word Document)
    D. Rushkoff Book Review
    Navigating the Third Wave
    "Uncharted Waters Between
    the Second and Third Wave"
    A paper by Ron Logsdon Greatness
    Quotes on becoming great
    10 Characteristics of Greatness Leadership & Motivation
    "Leadership: Followers &
    Changing Values"
    by Dr. Robert Taylor
    "Leaders: What do they do differently?"
    by Wally Bock
    Expectancy Theory[Chart]
    "A theory on human
    motivation"
    by Dr. Robert Taylor
    Leadership & Followership
    by Dr. Robert Taylor
    Leadership Development
    "Leadership is Developing
    Other Leaders"
    by Phil Cox
    Franklin Reality Model
    "What REALLY Matters Most"
    Microsoft Word97 document
    by Hyrum Smith
    OTHER
    Minute Writing Guide
    Strategic Directions
    AACS 5-Year Plan

    StrategicThinking
    by Dr. William Corley

    The Curious Journal
    Publication Schedule

    AACS IntraNet
    User's Guide
    "Does Your Organization Have Technology Vision?"
    Steve Lipton, Williams, Young & Associates
    Computers
    Encyclopedia Article
    Computing, Short
    Course & Glossary
    Babel's Extended
    Computing Glossary
    Intranet and Web
    Technology References
    "Becoming Champions"
    By Lyle Sumek
    "Mastering Change" Initiative
    Peter Senge: 5th Discipline(PDF) "Changing Times"
    by Dr. Robert A. Fazzi
    "Non-linearity" (Chaos Theory)
    from Encarta Encyclopedia
    Reports and References Page

    MAJOR REVIEWS

    OSPRI, 1996 | Head Start
    On-site Review



    Report of the Kentucky
    Commission on Poverty
    (1995)
    Text, Maps, Charts
    Excellent Reference Piece

    Planning Startegically
    for Kentucky's Future
        (1995)
    Text, Slides
    Kentucky's Challenges

    Communities of
    the Future
    1994 "Predictions"

    DEALING WITH THE MEDIA / PUBLIC SPEAKING


    Media in the AACS Area
    Newspapers, Radio, TV

    Media Training 101
    2000 CDF Conference
    Presentation
    (Microsoft Word document)
    Minute Writing Guide
    Newspaper & Broadcast "Pointers"
    2000 CDF Conference
    Presentation
    (Microsoft Word document)
    Persuading the Powerful Poverty Matters
    2000 CDF Conference
    Presentation
    (Microsoft Word Document)

    Dealing with the Media
    Arch Lustberg, President
    Lustberg and Associates
    Mind, Face, Body, Voice
    A Users Guide by...
    Arch Lustberg, President
    Lustberg and Associates
    Dealing with the Media, '97
    Arch Lustberg's '97 Summary
    Review for Leadership
    Kentucky
    Dealing with the Media
    and Investigative Reporters
    Suanne Brooks and
        Richard Belcher
    Region IV ACF
    Media Guidance
    "Turning Your Message
    Into An Article"
    by Barbara McNichol
    "Interpersonal Communications
    Skills and Styles"
    Barbara Black Miller's '93
    Review for Leadership
    Kentucky
    Quotes for Papers & Speeches
    SearchableFile # 1; File # 2;
    File # 3 File # 4;
    File # 5; File # 6
    (More in the future)
    "A Strange Freedom"
    Dr. Howard Thomas
    (1899-1980)
    "Living Life Backwards"
    Anonymoys piece
    "Select Generational
    Characteristics"
    3-generation comparison chart
    "Looking for the Wizard"
    Gene Wayne Childress's
    popular address based
    on The Wizard of Oz
     

    AACS History



    CAA Profile
    Nationwide review of CAAs' services, 1999 - Page copied from the National Association of CAAs (NACAA) Web site.

    NOTE: Outside-the-page links will not work. Page provided for reference only.


     

    AACS Training Events


     

    Operational Memorandums
    - Index by Name and Number

     

    Job Descriptions
    - Index by Program

     

    Performance Appraisal

    Personnel Policy
    Overview
    (Under development)

    Travel Policy
    Overview
    (Under development)

    Training Resources
    (Under development)

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